The Post’s Steve Serby chatted Thursday with the new Jets offensive coordinator.

Q: What would you do if one of your receivers mooned the crowd?

A: (Laughs). I’d say, “Herm, take care of that.”

Q: Could Randy Moss play for you?

A: I don’t think we’d get along real good. I wouldn’t jump on a table to say, “Let’s go pay him.” He’d get the ball a lot; maybe that would make him happy. But I’m an Ed McCaffrey-Rod Smith-Justin McCareins guy. That’s why I like watching Terrell Owens. He plays a complete game.

Q: How do you get Chad Pennington to the next level?

A: You do what he’s comfortable with.

Q: You spoke Thursday for 20 minutes on the phone with him.

A: He was excited. I was excited.

Q: What did he say?

A: “I’ll learn anything.”

Q: Did people make fun of your last name?

A: When I was little, they beat me up with it. You know how kids are in grammar school. I just tell everybody to call me Dinger. By the time you get to Heimerdinger, you forget what the hell you were gonna ask anyway. The one today (Thursday) in (The Post) wasn’t too shabby (Herm Dinger). I laughed at that one.

Q: Favorite Mike Shanahan roommate story at Eastern Illinois?

A: We’re going to his house in Franklin Park and started the trip with 10 bucks. We filled up his tank and had 35 cents to go from the South Side to O’Hare, which is six tolls. The first four we acted like we threw the money in and kept going. At the sixth toll there was a cop waiting. We told the toll guy we had no money and had to fill out an IOU. They sent Shanahan a bill for 35 cents.

Q: Jeff Fisher anecdote?

A: There’s a guy in town that belongs to Augusta and he always had a deal with Fish. If he got to the championship game, he would take six people to Augusta with him. I got in (after the ’02 season). That was unbelievable. Fish was hitting it so bad he wanted to quit after nine. I said, “This is Augusta! You gotta keep going.”

Q: Rod Smith credits you for making him what he is today.

A: He still is afraid that somebody will take away his locker and position. Not many guys have never missed a workout in 10 years.

Q: He claims he still can hear your voice in his head.

A: I didn’t beat him up like I did Justin (McCareins). It was a project that was a great, great love affair.

Q: Why did you beat up Justin?

A: He is such a competitor that if I challenged him he got so mad at me it was, “I’ll show you.”

Q: You must be thrilled to have him again.

A: I’m probably more thrilled than he is (laughs).

Q: Best piece of advice from your father?

A: He taught me how to compete. He was a (high school football) coach.

Q: Did he coach you?

A: When I got to high school, he went to college. He didn’t want to coach me.

Q: Favorite childhood memory?

A: Sitting on the bench next to my dad. I was his manager in every sport that he coached growing up.

Q: He’s your role model?

A: He is. He still calls me every Monday.

Q: Favorite athlete outside football?

A: I would pay to watch Roger Clemens pitch or Michael Jordan play basketball.

Q: What won’t you tolerate?

A: Mental mistakes.

Q: What is your best trait as a coach?

A: I’m a good teacher.

Q: What would you want Jet fans to say about your offense?

A: That we’ve got a toughness. I’ve never been concerned with whether people were entertained. I’m just concerned if we scored more points than the other team.

Q: What were you thinking when Doug Brien was lining up for his 43-yard field goal?

A: That he’d make it for sure. I was shocked.

Q: If you could pick the brain of one football person .Ñ.Ñ.

A: Lombardi .Ñ.Ñ. about organization. And I would like to talk to Parcells. I’ve never met Bill. He’s taken a lot of guys and made them good players.

Q: What is it like scheming against Bill Belichick and Romeo Crennel?

A: It’s hard, ’cause you don’t know where they’re coming from. A lot of extra hours of work that week.

Q: Single best football moment.

A: (The Broncos’) Super Bowl (XXXII) against Green Bay. As a parent, it was watching my son play (wide receiver) in the state championship in Tennessee.